Since December 2015, I have been working extensively on the ground across India to promote sanitation and civic responsibility.

A recurring and frustrating theme I encounter everywhere is the intense demand for basic rights better roads, clean water, and uninterrupted electricity. However, the exact same citizens completely ignore their fundamental duties when it comes to maintaining these public spaces.

They will demand a new road and then throw their household plastic waste right in the middle of it.
We have become a society that only knows how to take from the system.

If we genuinely want a developed nation, we cannot just act as consumers of government resources; we must become responsible contributors. Before we blame the system, we need to fix our own daily habits.

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For my internship's Social Impact Project, I chose environmental sustainability, focusing on raising awareness about waste reduction and using resources wisely. I liked this cause because anyone can start acting on it right away, regardless of their resources.

This journey has taught me a lot. I spent time creating awareness content and discussing small daily changes with those around me, like separating waste, using less single-use plastic, and being mindful of our consumption. The biggest thing I noticed is that most people want to do better, but they just don't know where to begin. My key takeaway is that the real issue is often a lack of awareness, not a lack of care.

Moving forward, I plan to continue raising awareness in my community, build better habits myself, and participate in local clean-up or tree planting events whenever possible.

I believe I can help by communicating and creating content that makes environmental topics simple and accessible, allowing more people to get involved without feeling overwhelmed.

One idea I'd love to see grow is neighborhood "swap and reuse" corners—a simple community shelf where people can leave items they no longer need, like books, clothes, and containers for others to reuse. This approach helps reduce waste right at the source.

To everyone reading this, you don't have to save the whole planet at once. Just pick one habit and start there. Small steps taken regularly lead to real change.

#SocialImpact #Sustainability #ChangemakersUnite

I am currently a rising 3L planning on going into environmental law. As a people person who values community, I volunteer with a local environmental nonprofit whose main focus is timber sales and protecting old growth. I believe that greater public understanding of environmental law topics is empowering and helps bridge the gap between grassroots organizing and legal work to hold polluters accountable. I want to create a zine that covers common legal topics and major cases. I plan on including the public comment process and some cases I have found interesting in law school, like Citizens United. What topics and processes do attorneys wish more people understood? What admin law topics would be helpful to include? Any recommendations are welcome!

In this excerpt from a recent livestream, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains why the newly proposed rules from the Office of Management and Budget giving political appointees power over federal grants would be a disaster not only for American science, but also for everything from disaster response to public universities to cancer treatment to technological advancement, not to mention American competitiveness on the global stage. Far from being an esoteric rule change, this would represent a dramatic escalation of recent attempts to make critical and non-partisan government functions subject to the ideological and personal whims of whichever political party happens to be in power--up to and including the President directly.

📝 The deadline to submit a public comment opposing this measure to the Federal Register is MONDAY. We can submit ours here, and see what Dr. Swain himself filed here. We can also share the clip to help spread the word. 📝

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